Beautiful. I have hiked around the Himalayas a bit about 25 years ago. Flew a little Cessna plane around Everest which was amazing.

Wow. Talk about an unhealthy obsession. You attack me more that anyone attacks anyone else on here. By a long shot. Not even close. Probably time for a break. Side note... if I had a mid life crisis in was at least 10 years ago now. I don't attack anyone for their preferences... ever. I get along great with people who love cold and who love rain. I only call out Jesse for his smug, passive-aggressive stuff. But even that actually seems better than your outright attacks on me out of the blue which aren't even part of a conversation. And I don't think you want to bring the political discussion in here. You don't have a political discussion without talking about personal opinions. It's not the weather Chris. We control that. But I think both sides are crazy and not afraid to say it there.

Nah, the real irony is you pretend like you are something you are not. You antagonize and attack anything and anyone against your preferences on this thread and the political one more than anyone, oh boo effin hooo you can't enjoy your deck or boat every weekend, who effing cares. MAGA!! You are a broken record day in and day out saying the same but in different ways as to convince yourself that you don't do it. You're mid life crisis is not going well, you should get some help. Oh btw, we already know you will just say oh Chris is just coming on here to attack me, going against my preferences to disagree with me like always, save your breath and grow the eff up.

Going through Hurricane Hugo in SC in 1989 is what solidified my interest in extreme wx at age 14. I also interned at Mt Washington Observatory in NH in 2000-01. Been on the west coast since 2012. 6 years in CA (Santa Cruz and Long Beach) and 6 here in Spokane, WA. Found out I'm getting canned from my job on 6/28 and my wife is pushing to move back east. Approaching 50, we might consider it with parents well up in their 80s I feel like I'm missing their golden years. We have no kids, so its easier to move around.

That's pretty crazy. We never heard from the friend after he left, so I have no idea what his fate was. Presumably he relocated somewhere, but no idea where. I think it took about 24-36 hours before he found out his mom and little sister survived, and he took off right after he got that news. My wife's main job is going through all of the path reports, flagging cancer diagnoses and passing the information to the appropriate treatment team. I keep reminding my wife that all of the data she is collecting and entering into the national database will hopefully help our kids and grandkids face less of a cancer threat than we are facing, but its still very difficult. I definitely miss thunderstorms A LOT, and fire flies, and Waffle House. The rest of it can sod off! Especially the heat. In Athens I lived in a brick and cinder block duplex with a single old window unit AC mounted in the wall. It had full sun exposure and single pane windows, so it got really hot. I ran the AC at a bare minimum, and it still more than doubled my power bill for little benefit. Instead I would spend a good chunk of my day sitting in a bathtub filled with very lukewarm water to try and stay somewhat cool. Most of my books had water damage from falling asleep while reading LOL! When I did the tobacco farming, I lived in a house with a swimming pool, and the house had A/C and was kept cool, but being outside in July all day was brutal, and when we moved to the warehouse in August, the air ventilation sucked, and it would regularly get up to 125-130+ degrees (people brought in thermometers to confirm). We were given frequent water breaks and frequent opportunities to stand in front of the industrial sized floor fans. Still, you could wring our clothes out on sale days, which were the days we had to work the hardest. And we did it all for $4.25/hour (minimum wage was around 3.35 at the time). I've also helped out on a cattle drive in late November in Montana with the temps hovering in the negative teens and a very stiff wind. I would take that any day compared to working in that D**n warehouse in August.